Join us as an Infrastructure & Resilience Manager! Lead the way in managing our critical UK infrastructure and data centres. Steer operational excellence and drive resilience. If you're a seasoned leader with a passion for mission-critical environments and continuous improvement, your future is here!
Salary: Circa £65,500 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site or to meet business demand
Security Clearance: British Citizen
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team. DV will be required for this role.
What we can offer you:
Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Resilience Manager to be responsible for our critical UK infrastructure and data centre environments. You will lead, manage and ensure the stability, resilience, security and long-term operational capability of those environments. The successful candidate will oversee critical operational functions across all data centre environments, will coordinate facilities service providers, capacity plan, govern plus contribute and participate in continuously evolving business continuity in disaster recovery activities.
This position requires a strong operational leader with experience in managing mission-critical infrastructure environments, leading teams through operational incidents including participating in a call out rota for crisis management and creating continuous improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will also manage, lead and support the UK Data Centre Operations Manager.
You would be joining a highly respected, motivated, dynamic and supportive team. The team owns and manages the lifecycle of all Infrastructure & Cloud platforms in the UK. Team members are actively encouraged and supported to generate continuous improvement initiatives to grow and mature the areas their own. To help do this, a strong emphasis is placed on gaining technical knowledge and experience via exploiting the extensive technical and management training capabilities of MBDA. The team is expanding their scope and influence whilst continuing to grow significantly.
What we're looking for from you:
Essential
Extensive knowledge in the management and operations of data centres, hosting environments and critical infrastructure components such as server, storage, network, and cloud infrastructure environments
Strong knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BC)
Experience leading DR testing, failover exercises, and operational recovery activities
Strength in applying robust operational governance, change control, and risk management practices
Strong understanding of infrastructure & environment capacity planning and operational forecasting
Strong understanding of:
Power infrastructure including distribution, UPS and generator systems
Cooling and environmental controls
Building management monitoring systems (BMS)
Redundancy and resilience models
Operational experience of a BMS; capable of interpreting the performance of electrical and mechanical systems
Capable builder of strong relationships; an effective communicator and organisational leader
Experienced in managing vendor and supplier management of external specialist third parties
Capable of proactively managing incidents, problems and changes to data centres and infrastructure components
Capable of ensuring compliance with internal security and safety protocols
Capable of creating management information, operational & maintenance procedures, runbooks, policies and standards for the data centres, hosting environments
Desirable
ITIL certification or equivalent operational framework experience
Experience within highly secure and regulated environments
Familiarity with one or more of the following: ISO27001, ISO 22301, MOD DCC & SbD
Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) or Certified Data Centre Management Professional (CDCM)
Experience with DCIM and infrastructure monitoring tools
Experience in managing multi-site, national data centre environments
Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.
We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…
We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.
#LI-RM1
Join us as an Infrastructure & Resilience Manager! Lead the way in managing our critical UK infrastructure and data centres. Steer operational excellence and drive resilience. If you're a seasoned leader with a passion for mission-critical environments and continuous improvement, your future is here!
Salary: Circa £65,500 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site or to meet business demand
Security Clearance: British Citizen
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team. DV will be required for this role.
What we can offer you:
Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Resilience Manager to be responsible for our critical UK infrastructure and data centre environments. You will lead, manage and ensure the stability, resilience, security and long-term operational capability of those environments. The successful candidate will oversee critical operational functions across all data centre environments, will coordinate facilities service providers, capacity plan, govern plus contribute and participate in continuously evolving business continuity in disaster recovery activities.
This position requires a strong operational leader with experience in managing mission-critical infrastructure environments, leading teams through operational incidents including participating in a call out rota for crisis management and creating continuous improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will also manage, lead and support the UK Data Centre Operations Manager.
You would be joining a highly respected, motivated, dynamic and supportive team. The team owns and manages the lifecycle of all Infrastructure & Cloud platforms in the UK. Team members are actively encouraged and supported to generate continuous improvement initiatives to grow and mature the areas their own. To help do this, a strong emphasis is placed on gaining technical knowledge and experience via exploiting the extensive technical and management training capabilities of MBDA. The team is expanding their scope and influence whilst continuing to grow significantly.
What we're looking for from you:
Essential
Extensive knowledge in the management and operations of data centres, hosting environments and critical infrastructure components such as server, storage, network, and cloud infrastructure environments
Strong knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BC)
Experience leading DR testing, failover exercises, and operational recovery activities
Strength in applying robust operational governance, change control, and risk management practices
Strong understanding of infrastructure & environment capacity planning and operational forecasting
Strong understanding of:
Power infrastructure including distribution, UPS and generator systems
Cooling and environmental controls
Building management monitoring systems (BMS)
Redundancy and resilience models
Operational experience of a BMS; capable of interpreting the performance of electrical and mechanical systems
Capable builder of strong relationships; an effective communicator and organisational leader
Experienced in managing vendor and supplier management of external specialist third parties
Capable of proactively managing incidents, problems and changes to data centres and infrastructure components
Capable of ensuring compliance with internal security and safety protocols
Capable of creating management information, operational & maintenance procedures, runbooks, policies and standards for the data centres, hosting environments
Desirable
ITIL certification or equivalent operational framework experience
Experience within highly secure and regulated environments
Familiarity with one or more of the following: ISO27001, ISO 22301, MOD DCC & SbD
Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) or Certified Data Centre Management Professional (CDCM)
Experience with DCIM and infrastructure monitoring tools
Experience in managing multi-site, national data centre environments
Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.
We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…
We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.
#LI-RM1
